Brian Morrison posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sun, 21 Aug 2005 22:42:36 +0100:
> On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 14:24:33 -0700 in > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Klaus P Schreyack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I was wondering if anyone could elaborate as to why PAN consumes a huge >> amount of memory when loading newsgroups >= 1 Million Headers ? > > Because it is using a Gtk widget that was never designed to cope with > such usage, a database backend is being developed to replace the current > design but is not yet ready to integrate. Exactly. If you are the sort of person that likes compiling potentially buggy software from CVS, PAN's CVS version has a number of improvements in this area. However, it's still quite CVS quality, at this point, with several known instabilities and regressions to work thru, still (and I'm not sure Charles is thru changing/adding features yet, either), before it goes beta, let alone stable. For very high traffic binary groups, particularly if you have access to them on several servers, you may wish to check out klibido. It's rather younger than PAN, and doesn't have PAN's scoring and filtering, neither does it handle text, but it certainly goes to down with the downloads, as I said, particularly if you have multiple servers (and a high bandwidth connection), and without the memory overhead of PAN. Certain distributions have packages for it (tho they might not be upto date), or you can check out it's site @ sourceforge, http://klibido.sourceforge.net. Or... check out BNR2/BNR3. More mature than klibido, available for MSWormOS or Linux, but not entirely open source, so it's not something I'd run. (I don't know about the source itself, but it's compiled with the Borland Delphi/Kylex slaveryware compiler.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
